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Truck Stop Caters To Growing Number Of Immigrant Drivers

Co-owners Vamsi Yaramaka (left) and Raj Alturu stand inside Eat Spice on Oct. 24, in the truck stop on Route 534 off I-80 in White Haven, Pa. The restaurant caters to members of the Sikh community. For them, Indian and Mediterranean dishes can be hard to find on the road. Matt Smith hide caption

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Truck Stop Caters To Growing Number Of Immigrant Drivers

The number of long-haul truckers in the U.S. has reached an all-time high, and many are immigrants. Some truck stops are adapting to provide drivers a taste of home while on the road.

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Threatened Hawaiian Bird Strives To Make Comeback

A Newell's shearwater nests in mountain burrows on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. André Raine/Kauai Endangered Seabird Recovery Project hide caption

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Threatened Hawaiian Bird Strives To Make Comeback

by Gloria Hillard

Threatened Hawaiian Bird Strives To Make Comeback

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How Do You Move 100+ Monet Masterpieces? Very, Very Carefully

Conservator Felicitas Klein, right, traveled from Germany with Villas at Bordighera, an 1884 painting by Claude Monet. She inspects the painting at the Denver Art Museum, along with senior paintings conservator Pamela Skiles. Kendelyn Ouellette hide caption

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How Do You Move 100+ Monet Masterpieces? Very, Very Carefully

by Stephanie Wolf

How Do You Move 100+ Monet Masterpieces? Very, Very Carefully

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Happy Belated Paper Holland
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Soft Place To Land Kathleen Edwards
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Goodnight, California Kathleen Edwards
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Truck Stop Caters To Growing Number Of Immigrant Drivers

Co-owners Vamsi Yaramaka (left) and Raj Alturu stand inside Eat Spice on Oct. 24, in the truck stop on Route 534 off I-80 in White Haven, Pa. The restaurant caters to members of the Sikh community. For them, Indian and Mediterranean dishes can be hard to find on the road. Matt Smith hide caption

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Truck Stop Caters To Growing Number Of Immigrant Drivers

by Laura Benshoff

Truck Stop Caters To Growing Number Of Immigrant Drivers

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How To Like Jazz, For The Uninitiated

Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie performs at the Boston Globe Jazz and Blues Festival on Jan. 15, 1966. Bob Daugherty/AP hide caption

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How To Like Jazz, For The Uninitiated

How To Like Jazz, For The Uninitiated

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On the Sunny Side of the Street Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie et. al.
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